From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 24 09:28:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE4C016A4CE for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 09:28:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (A17-250-248-89.apple.com [17.250.248.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A23043D48 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 09:28:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id i0OHSaqa005064; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 09:28:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.6] (pool-68-161-129-47.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.129.47]) (authenticated bits=0)i0OHSZXg018802; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 09:28:35 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <001101c3e217$36bff1e0$0101a8c0@cascade> References: <000c01c3e1db$d1bd2ff0$0f8a23a6@open.wcomnet.com> <08497192-4DD7-11D8-A782-003065ABFD92@mac.com> <001101c3e217$36bff1e0$0101a8c0@cascade> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v609) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 12:28:40 -0500 To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.609) cc: freebsd-questions ORG Subject: Re: freebsd 4.8 and the spamassassin 2.6x port X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:28:37 -0000 On Jan 23, 2004, at 8:13 PM, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > Why perl 5.8? My 5.2 machine is running postfix, perl 5.6.1 and > amavisd-new > without any trouble at all. I don't believe that there is anything wrong with perl-5.6.x. For that matter, I don't feel religious opposition to using the stock perl as shipped with FreeBSD 4.x, but even earlier versions of SpamAssassin recommended using 5.6 or later. SA has a bunch of dependencies on various perl modules (HTML and MIME-handling stuff, mostly), and 5.8 obviously comes with a more recent version of such. There is some dichotomy between upgrading Perl stuff via CPAN versus via the ports, which is why it might be reasonable for individuals to decide whether they want to follow the Perl archive directly or wait for the ports to be tested and updates committed. -- -Chuck PS: I don't have the port version of perl installed on most of my FreeBSD systems, but I do have 5.8 installed on everything which is running SpamAssassin. Aside from an issue circa SA-2.6.1_2? or so where the Subject: header rewriting stopped working until the port was upgraded again (I think someone else mentioned this, too), SA+perl-5.8 has been working well. YMMV.